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Sunday, March 4, 2012

I Want To Go To Hell

February
27, 2012

So
I’ve told you how concerned my children get for their cousin. That concern went
to a whole new level this week for our son. While sitting around talking after
dinner one evening (my attention was divided – I was also working on paperwork)
our son blurts out “I want to go to Hell”. He’s made the comment before but
this week it took on a tone that was very unsettling for me; and apparently for
my husband as well. We both stopped what we were doing and looked at him.
“Why?” my husband asked. “I would go to Hell if Sue (not her real name) could
go to Heaven.” I wanted to cry. My reaction was to run to my son, grab him by
the shoulders, and while shaking him say ‘Don’t ever let me hear you say that
again!’ Fortunately for our family my husband was quicker than me. After some
further probing we realized that our son thought he could save his cousin.

We
knew he was concerned about her. And we knew that he knew she wasn’t
born-again. What we didn’t know was just how deeply he felt for her soul. My
husband sat with our son and explained that his going to Hell was not going to
save his cousin. “Why not?” he asked. “Can I save you?” Daddy asked. “No.” “Who
is the only One that can save?” Daddy continues. “Jesus.”

From
there my husband explained that the only way ‘Sue’ was going to Heaven was to
repent and seek forgiveness and follow God. That was a choice she had to make
and was not something he could do for her.

Sunday
‘Sue’ received a sermon on repentance.

Our
son believed he could trade his soul for his cousin’s and was willing to do so.
A lie I believe was planted by Satan. I thank God my husband was around to
handle that one; I think I would have blown it.

I
know pride is a sin; but when I think about my son who was willing to condemn
himself to an eternity in Hell in order to save someone he loved very much, I
must admit I feel pride.

“Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” –
John 15:13

1. To offer to God in homage or
worship, by killing and consuming, as victims on an altar; to immolate, either
as an atonement for sin, or to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as,
to sacrifice an ox or a lamb. 2Sam. 6.

2. To destroy, surrender or suffer
to be lost for the sake of obtaining something; as, to sacrifice the peace of
the church to a little vain curiosity. We should never sacrifice health to
pleasure, nor integrity to fame.

3. To devote with loss.

Condemn'd to sacrifice his childish
years to babbling ignorance and to empty fears.

4. To destroy; to kill.

SAC'RIFICE, v.i. To make
offerings to God by the slaughter and burning of victims, or of some part of
them. Ex. 3.

SAC'RIFICE, n. [L.
sacrificium.]

1. An offering made to God by
killing and burning some animal upon an altar, as an acknowledgment of his
power and providence, or to make atonement for sin, appease his wrath or conciliate
his favor, or to express thankfulness for his benefits. Sacrifices have been
common to most nations, and have been offered to false gods, as well as by the
Israelites to Jehovah. A sacrifice differs from an oblation; the latter being
an offering of a thing entire or without change, as tithes or first fruits;
whereas sacrifice implies a destruction or killing, as of a beast. Sacrifices
are expiatory, impetratory, and eucharistical; that is, atoning for sin,
seeking favor, or expressing thanks.

Human sacrifices, the killing and
offering of human beings to deities, have been practiced by some barbarous
nations.

2. The thing offered to God, or
immolated by an act of religion.

My life if thou preserv'st, my life
thy sacrifice shall be.

3. Destruction, surrender or loss
made or incurred for gaining some object, or for obliging another; as the
sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.